Managing the delivery of iconic football stadiums in England

The English football premier league has become the most popular sports league in the world; with ardent fans and audiences all over the world. The potential business opportunities that this growth holds have therefore attracted investors who are keen to buy shares in the clubs and sign up the best footballers that money can buy. Underpinning the growth in all of the premier league clubs is a desire to make a distinct statement of identity as part of a competitive strategy. One way to achieve this is through the design and construction of iconic football stadiums. This paper explores the specific project management challenges associated with delivery of iconic football stadiums in England and draws lessons for the management of similar iconic infrastructure projects. A study of project management best practice and some case studies shows that key issues which are common to these projects are centred on design management; choice of procurement route; client management; and stakeholder expectation management. These issues are not necessarily unique to the project management of iconic football stadiums but are amplified by the context of these projects. The emphasis on iconic status in a competitive market also means that stadium projects should be conceived and delivered in the context of other strategic projects which should be clearly understood by the project management team

Three color strategies in architectural composition

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Serra, J. (2013), Three color strategies in architectural composition. Color Res. Appl., 38: 238–250. doi: 10.1002/col.21717, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/col.21717/abstractThis article deals with the possibilities that color affords architectural composition, the strategies facilitated through color as a vocabulary of expression. It primarily focuses on the rules of grammar and syntax of color, and to a lesser degree on the semantic meanings, as this would entail multiple interpretations by the observer. Following an analysis of architectural color classification systems suggested by other authors, we reason that there are three main groups of plastic strategies. These are not mutually exclusive, but rather, complementary to each other: (I) color can influence the perception of the visual properties of architectural shapes; (II) color can describe the building and (III) color can be arranged for its intrinsic value. Each of these strategies deals with a different level of knowledge of the building, which requires both subconscious and conscious mechanisms of identification by the observer. These are the color strategies used by architects to express a particular compositional purpose. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Serra Lluch, J. (2013). Three color strategies in architectural composition. Color Research and Application. 38(4):238-250. https://doi.org/10.1002/col.21717S238250384Arnoldi, P. (2007). Colour is Communication. doi:10.1007/978-3-7643-8202-5Fridell Anter K 2004 227 230Arrarte Grau M 2008 53 54http://www.mvrdv.nl/#/news/074studiothonikIttelson, W. H., & Kilpatrick, F. P. (1951). Experiments in Perception. Scientific American, 185(2), 50-55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0851-50Bottoni P 1927Humphrey N The effect of color on our perception of space Porter T Mikellides B London Studio Vista 1976 98 99Caivano JL Menghi I Iadisernia N 2004 113 115Humphrey N The color currency of nature Porter T Mikellides B London Studio Vista 1976 98 99Serra J Gilabert S Torres A Llopis J García A 2010 178 18

Designing Smart Places: towards a holistic, recombinant approach

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Building Sex. : Men, women, architecture, and the construction of sexuality.

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Building SEX : Men, Women,m Architecture, and the Construction of Sexuality.

New Yorkxix, 236 p, 24 cm